We want more women players to take up chess. There are few participants at the national level and hope it will grow.

Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)

Confidence is very important - even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking then he may overlook the mistake.

If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order.

Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.

You need to motivate yourself, no matter what-definitely when things are bad, but also when things are good. Or else, you risk becoming complacent.

In any match, there are few critical moments where there's no second best decision. The rest of the moves are intuitive.

I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one.

For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.

A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which... is within the souls of men.

Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.

I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.

This kind of collective society - giving to each according to his need - existed in Africa not only before Karl Marx, but also before Europe.

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.